Annual filing
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Every society files with its province’s registry once a year. What the filing asks, when it is due, and the walk through it, province by province.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s annual return
Newfoundland and Labrador’s registry filing is the annual return. Its clock is the corporation’s anniversary, not the meeting. The return goes to the registrar on the first day of the anniversary month. That is the month of the corporation’s registration, amalgamation or revival. It must be filed inside that month.
File it through CADO — Companies and Deeds Online, or on the form the Registry sends. The return states the registered office and the directors as they stand. For a corporation without share capital, a change of directors may ride with the return.
A late return leaves the corporation not in good standing. The province charges no sales tax of its own. The sales tax here is the HST, in the federal layer.
Check the anniversary month
The return runs on the corporation’s own anniversary, not on the meeting and not on the year end. The Act forwards it on the first day of the anniversary month — the month of the corporation’s registration, amalgamation or revival, whichever is latest — and it is filed inside that month.
The Registry generates the return form and sends it to the mailing address on the corporation’s profile. Find the anniversary month first: a return that misses its month leaves the corporation not in good standing.
(Done on the Governance page.)
Prepare the return from the books’ facts
The return carries the corporation as the books hold it: its legal name, its registered office and its directors as they stand on the People page.
Check those facts first: a director who left in March and still stands on the list is a mistake the registry will keep.
A change of directors in a corporation without share capital may ride with the return itself. The Act allows the notice to be sent with it. The return is the registry’s form. The app’s part: its facts stand true in the books.
(Done on the People page.)
Send the return to the Registry of Companies
Filing happens at the Registry of Companies, not in this app. It is done in CADO — Companies and Deeds Online, the registry’s own service: sign in, open the annual return and file it with the facts the last step read.
Only local incorporations file online. The return may also go in on the form the Registry sends. The Act sets the window: the return is forwarded on the first day of the anniversary month and filed inside it, with the fee the form sets.
Save the confirmation the registry gives; the next step records it. This step is done in the world.
(Done on the by hand page.)
Record the filing in the books
Record the filing in the corporation’s governance records: a record of kind Filing, saying the annual return for the year was filed, with the day and the confirmation the registry gave, in the confirmation field. Whoever keeps the books after you finds the proof here, not in a predecessor’s inbox.
It stands on the Tax page, in the year’s filings.
(Done on the Governance page.)